Frank Shaeffer explains who the followers of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin truly are. You need to read this with the lights on, very scary stuff!

In the early 1970s the evangelicals like my late father and James Dobson decided that the our society had fallen so far "away from God" and so far from "America's Christian history" that it was time to metaphorically decamp to not just another country but to another planet:. In other words virtually unnoticed by the media and mainstream political operatives, a big chunk of American society seceded from the union in all but name.

What they did is turn the white race-based in "Christian school" movement of the 1950s into a countercultural phenomena. As tens of thousands of new Christian schools opened, it was no longer just about "protecting" white kids from minorities and African-Americans. It was about protecting your children from Satan in other words the United States government's long reach through the public school system.

To protect your children from Satan -- in other words mainstream, open patriotic and pluralistic America -- you either kept them at home where mom and dad could teach the children right from wrong or send them to a cloistered private evangelical/fundamentalist school. At home or in school you used curriculum prepared by the likes of James--beat-your-child-and-dare-to-discipline-Dobson, RJ-slavery-was-a-good-thing-Rushdoony, or many and other right-wing anti-American activists. That curriculum presented "secular America" as downright evil. Hating the USA became next to godliness.

In other words these children were trained to distrust ANYBODY who did not adhere to their belief system. Or did not look, or act, like they did. I mean how many home schools are segregated?


Who are Glenn Beck's foot soldiers? In effect what we have is a group of indoctrinated people who have never actually lived in America because they were brought up deliberately cloistered from it by their parents and churches. Because they are legally "Americans" they can move freely around our democracy trying to destroy it working within the United States. Today they are acting like a fifth column, no, they are a fifth column. Some of them have not just seceded metaphorically, there is even a growing movement for states to secede literally.

Today the right wing America haters actually are doing to America what no "illegal" immigrants ever do: work to overthrow our democracy and replace it with a theocracy. The home-schooled, privately educated brainwashed horde are an antidemocratic, fundamentally anti-American political movement. For a start they do not accept the results of the last election.

So the true "anti-Americans" are not the people who are a product of the public school system, but those who were never allowed to participate in that shared education experience. They do not feel connected to you and me, they are only connected to their church, their family, and their twisted belief system.


The fact of the matter is we now know what the experiment in raising children outside of the American mainstream means. It means that there's a whole subculture within American culture that mistrusts facts precisely because they are facts. They glory an alternative view of not just politics but of reality.

They frequent the creationist museum and look at dioramas of dinosaurs cavorting with humans. They believe that gay people choose to be gay just stick it to the rest of us and could change if they invite Jesus into their hearts. They believe that before you run for governor of Alaska, for instance, you should get a preacher specializing in "casting out the spirit of witchcraft" to anoint you so you can win against the demonic forces of secularism -- as was the case with Sarah Palin when she first ran for governor. They believe that the NRA was telling the truth when they claimed that Obama would "take away your guns" and so have loaded up with more guns and ammunition. They think the time has come to rise up and overthrow the government. And yes, most of them also believe that black people are inferior to whites, so to have a black man in the White House is itself "proof" of American's fall from grace.

There's no arguing with such people and no winning against them using mere elections. They are not playing by American rules. Their idea of winning is not fair elections but Armageddon.

Well if that does not send cold chills up your back I don't know what would.

The fact is that war has been declared by these people and we are still trying to reason with them as they prepare to beat us into submission.

Please click the title and read the rest of Frank Shaeffer's post. It will not help you to sleep tonight but it will provide you with an understanding of just how crazy the Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck wing of the Republican party have become.

(By the way, I do not want any of my visitors to assume that I am lumping ALL people who homeschool their children into the same batshit crazy category. I do realize that many people keep their children out of school for legitimate reasons having nothing to do with their fear of secularism. There are people who live in areas with truly bad or dangerous schools, children with health problems, rural communities too far away to access good schools, or parents who are simply very qualified to teach their children at home and feel they can provide a better education. I do not believe that Mr. Shaeffer was referring to those homeschool parents. And of course neither am I. The last thing I want is for this post to turn into a place where people attack homeschool parents or even religious people in general. We are talking about a particular type of person who simply does not want their children to be confronted with facts that may inspire them to ignore their parents prejudice and ignorance.)